Australia's best wine regions: Six of the most underrated

GRANITE BELT, QUEENSLAND

If you never realised Queensland produced wine, make your way to this high-altitude, cool-climate region straddling the NSW border, centred on Stanthorpe. Among the 50-plus wineries are interesting boutique operations making forays into more unusual Mediterranean grape varieties such as durif, fiano and nebbiolo, encountered by following the Strange Bird tourist trail. At Ballandean Estate Wines, established in the 1940s, you can even try saperavi, a red-wine grape native to Georgia. As befits an emerging wine region, you'll enjoy matching good restaurants. As an added bonus, beautiful Girraween and Sundown national parks produce robust landscapes. See granitebeltwinecountry.com.au

PIPERS RIVER, TAS